The website explains: "What matters in beauty is perception. Perception is how you and other people see you, and this perception is almost always biased. Still, healthy people look more attractive despite their age and nationality.

"This has enabled the team of biogerontologists and data scientists, who believe that in the near future machines will be able to get a lot of vital medical information about people's health by just processing their photos, to develop a set of algorithms that can accurately evaluate the criteria linked to perception of human beauty and health where it is most important – the human face.

"But evaluating beauty and health is not enough. The team’s challenge is to find effective ways to slow down ageing and help people look healthy and beautiful.

The 40-49 year old winning men who were selected by the robot jury (Photo: Beauty AI)

"There were many attempts to do this in the past, but this time it will have a global impact because of the advances in deep learning, symbolic learning and massive semantic analysis."

Contest winners were offered cosmetics prizes and robot jury teams were also given prizes - as well as, the company says, going down in history as "the first on the Earth who took part in The First International Beauty Contest Judged by Artificial Intelligence".

Set up by a team at Youth Laboratories, around 50.4% of entrants were males, and the remainder identified as female.

Beauty.ai asked for submissions of robots from teams of scientists (Photo: Beauty.AI)

But the results, according to the company, showed disagreements between robot and human opinion, with those not selected as winners offering criticism of the robots online.

Anastasya Georgievskaya, Research Manager at Youth Laboratories, told MailOnline : "We were shocked by the outrage caused by the leaderboard. Many participants disagreed with the jury and proposed getting a human opinion."

Konstantin Kiselev, Director of Development at Youth Laboratories added: "I think that in 2-3 years these technologies will be very important and will help facilitate human-robot interaction."

Around 6,000 people worldwide submitted selfies with no make up, glasses or beards (Photo: Beauty.AI)

There is another contest slated to launch in October, and Beauty.ai has welcomed contact from algorithm developers with novel concepts evaluating perception of human faces.